{"id":471437,"date":"2026-10-20T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471437\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:05:08","slug":"infants-body-found-next-to-dumpster-in-fort-worth-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471437\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant\u2019s body found next to dumpster in Fort Worth: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792487107_609_breakingphoto.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.<\/p>\n<p>            Pexels<\/p>\n<p>A dead infant was found on Sunday, Oct. 18, next to a dumpster at a motel in west Fort Worth, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A person discovered the baby\u2019s body at the Drummers Inn in the 7300 block of Camp Bowie West Boulevard. Police were called there about 8:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Police Department crimes against children unit detectives are investigating the case. The department has not announced an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson did not respond to a reporter\u2019s question on whether the baby was a boy or girl.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrant County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has not released the cause or manner of the infant\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792487108_502_EmersonClarridge_Profile.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Emerson Clarridge\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/230256844\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Clarridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. Pexels A dead infant was found on Sunday, Oct. 18, next to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-471437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}